Toy.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERMANN WITTMANN, OF MANITOWOC, WISCONSIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 724,226, dated March31, 1903.

Application led December 16,1902. Serial No. 135,366. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERMANN WITTMANN, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Manitowoc, in the county of Manitowoc and State ofWisconsin, have invented a new and Improved Toy, of which thefollowingis afull, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in toys, the object being toprovide a toy so arranged that by casting it upon a table or floor itmay be caused to assume various forms or shapes indicating variousobjects and also serve for elementary lessons in arithmetic, thus notonly providing amusement, but having educational features.

I will describe a toy embodying my invention and then point out thenovel features in the appended claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a toy embodying my invention, showing one ofthe forms that may be assumed. Fig. 2 is a plan view showing anotherform. Fig. 3 is a section on the line a: of Fig. l, and Figs. 4, 5, and6 show other forms.

The toy comprises a ring 1 of suitable ma-' like, as before stated,- itmay be caused to as= sume various shapesfsuch, for instance, as a comet,as indicated in Figs. l and 4, a full moon, as indicated in Fig. 2, astar, as illus- 4o trated by Fig. 5, and a disk or the like, as shown inFig. 6.

As an educational device the members extending outward may be added tothe members extending inward, or one set ofmembers may be subtractedfrom the other setof members, thus not only providing amusement to achild, but serving somewhat as a kindergarten instrument. Y

In practice I will provide with the toy a chart suitably colored toindicate the various forms to be assumed by the toy.

The toy is especially applicable to kindergarten work, as a child may bymeans of. the toy form at least fortynine symmetrical shapes, and thusgive the child an idea of shape and form.

Having "thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- A toy comprising a ring, and a plurality of membersmounted to swing thereon independn ently one of another, the saidmembers being of uniform size and adapted to swing into the r1ng.

. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HERMANN WITTMANN. Witnesses:

JOHN C. WINPELs, H. E. MASON.

